New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-12-25
FOR SELF.SUPPORTING WOMEN.
A SCHEME TO BUILD THEM A HOTEL.
PROPOSING TO SUPPLY THEM WITH EVERY COM
FORT AT A LJW RATE

PROPOSING TO SUPPLY THEM WITH EVERY COM
FORTA A Lpw RATE.
At the annual meeting OF the managers OF tho New
York Exchange for Womans Work, recently held
at tho home Of Mrs William f. Dodge In Madison
ave., Mr.. T. NJ. Wheeler suggested plan, which She
has been formulating for several months regarding
the building and equipment OF q hotel for selfsup-
porting women In New-York This scheme met with
the hearty approval OF all the ladies who heard It
mentioned and Mrs Wheeler has conversed with a
number Of wealthy men, interested in matters per-
tanning to the public interests Of the city, who also
think 1t worthy OF consideration.
Mrs. Wheeler with her long experience as a bust.
ness woman her connection with the Society OF Dec
orativc Art the womans Exchange and the Associat-
cd Artists, and with her knowledge of various
charities has had opportunities Of learning the
necessity for comfortable habitation for the higher
class of who obliged to earn their own sup
port many OF whom are gentewomen and who havo
been accustomed to the relnemcns and quiet OF q
homo I'm the country but obliged to seek employ
mcnt In the city, and OF other women who have be-
como impovcl he'd through no fault of their own. and
are earning bread by the accomplishments which
made them attractive In better days, and change their
luxurious surroundings for cheap boarding house in
some obscure street which is dlsaseful In every
spcct with It's shabby furnishings, It's doubtful res
Idens, and wrctchcd fare.
NOT TO BE 4 CHARITABLE CONCERN.
A. T. Stewart some years ago built a hotel for self
supporting women, but tho regulations and restrictions
were severe tho price Of beard high and It proved
a failure. Mrs. Wheclcr's plan scheme IS better,
and has all tho elements OF success, II 1t be
rled She desires form a stock company, with
capital Of 100000 to build fire proof house some
whore between Second and Eighth ayes, cast and
west and Twelfth and Thlrtcth sts, north and south,
limo Of cross town cars. It shall be so ar
ranged as to give each occupant room with open
fire, and shall possess the possibilities Of home and
homo attractions, I'm business centre.
From Trustworthy statistics gathered from persons
who keep boarding houses, IS learned that the aver
age expense for each Inmate in such hotel would be
this number It would not be a Such hotel
could bc managed Ike club, with house COMMITTEES
" the inmates and tho stockholders, and can be made
a paying Investment to the wealthy men and women
OF New York who viii assist In such a noble work
wELi-B 80 woMEN wdO SUFFER IN SILENCE.
great deal has been said and written Of the hard
ships Of the shop girls In the metropolis ard with rea
son. Mrs Wheeler declares that there Is no class
Of residents WHO should be- remembered with greater
sympathy than tho well born welbrcd Intelligent
women who ask charity, but would rejoice IA hav
ing tho sunshine and quiet comforts OF hume, which
they could pay fox OUT Of their mod-fr'o earnings
with tic possibility Of saving something bade for Oh
aye or tue days when they car 10 longer toll
The larger elias, Of women FOR whom THIS plea IS
made arc those who haEc occupations OF literary
character, and whose WORK connn's them Wthn GOois
much Of he tmc and who, above all other require
mru, ned cheerful Surroundings, Almost every large
city In the United states has followed the Idea OF the
Newly Exchange for WoWcn's Work, begun some
ten years since and q = believed that the same cities
woull erect ho'ei. tor scfsuppOri ng women II the
project can bo carried out here ClrculIr' giving an
minor particulars Of the scheme can be found at No
800 !fth.aNc.